"Cause I'll be lighting fires for you.."

~I'm there in the Light when you need me~

Well I'm pretty much angry now and there's no getting over it because I have to sit there and look at Todd's face. We just had a dicussion on progress and evidentally Todd doesn't think that his boy child (who is not even a year old) should cry. In fact he is the most unprogressive piece of bullshit ever, I told him that it wasn't fair to expect Midori to want to roughhouse and play football if Soren couldn't cry. His response, "When Midori goes to school, the girls will beat it out of her because that's not the societal norm." (He just left the room, thank you gods above)

FUCK YOU TODD.

That is going to give his children a giant complex. By that logic alone, I am not supposed to like Mecha anime and I should sit at home and sew a fucking sampler because that is the societal norm, if I didn't hear such a giant crock of bullshit. WHY I DON'T EVEN.

REMEMBER KIDS, BOYS GO IN THE BLUE TAB, GIRLS GO IN THE PINK TAB. AND HEAVEN FORBID THEY SHOULD TRY TO CRAWL INTO THE PINK OR BLUE TAB.

I told him that he should be taught that it was okay to cry in his home, with his family whom he is vulnerable with, that it should be okay to show his emotions and his feelings, that he should talk and care and his response "Boys don't show their emotions" and then I was like "Well Todd why aren't you a marine then" and he was like "Because I'm not manly enough"

ASDFGHJKL*STAB*

He once told me that he doesn't consider me a girl. Well in that case, TODD IT MUST MAKE YOU FEEL WONDERFUL THAT SHU IS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER MAN, HMMM? MAKES YOU FEEL SO MANLY AND MASCULINE DOESN'T IT?

Yeah I know, see I don't do any of that, I don't work on cars, I don't build things, my area of expertise is technical. But oh my god I like anime AND romance novels (NO WAI!)

Added and unrelated note, hope you like bourbon balls because when I send out your christmas goody box, there will be bourbon balls (since I'm gonna try my hand at making them this year, being that it's a Kentucky Tradition.. or something)

We are a progressive household, Todd is just a dick. Strangely enough, many people don't meet these stereo types as I am the sort of gal that can make dresses AND build a book shelf. Go figure.

Sometimes he is just cruel to Soren, like my dad was cruel to my brother. Our society expects too much out of men. It's really unfair to expect men to be emotionless or to have to tough it up all the time. He should be allowed to feel. I just don't know what to do about it. Other then to make the point at some other time with Todd since I missed the initial instance. GRRR.

Yeah, I think it's ludicrous that we should be forced into boxes, no I refuse to be. Yes he is damn cruel, damn cruel and with unfair expectations. If I were him, I would let Soren feel free to be whatever he wants to be, if he wants to play with dolls then fine, I do not see any problems with that.

Maybe we should make them feel guilty about their sexuality while they are at it, like every time Midori runs around naked in the house, we should bark at her to put on clothing because to be naked is indecent. SAME THING.

If we are going to teach tolerance, equality and such, we can't just teach them that one thing is equal and the other thing isn't. People have done that before, you know what that's called? THE BIBLE.

Oh dear, these are the kinds of people that need to be sat down and told that stereotypes are a horrible and inaccurate thing and are the bane of a progressive society. Everyone has the right to like what they want, express themselves how they want, and do what they want (as long as it doesn't have a negative effect on society/the people around them in the long run, like violence). Regardless of race, weight, height, hair colour, gender, etc.

I'M A HUMAN BEING, I DO WHAT I WANT

He just sounds like a jerk who refuses to see the proverbial light. Hopefully things will turn out alright eventually.

Yeah and I'm alright with that. If Soren wants to play with dolls, he can. I do not think that playing with dolls will be singularly scarring in his life, I also think that Todd was placating us at the dinner table because he was going on about Midori being a fighter pilot who dropped bombs on people. He thinks that if he gives us the girl, we'll let him have the boy to force his emotional castration upon.

Yeah, I just seriously wanted to punch him right in the face, when he up and left the room I was so glad, I bet he figured that me in my nondescript gender-state might of punched him if he kept on that line of thought. (but then so would of Shuu, she just had to leave the room to cook dinner)

oh boy... dude's got a serious issues. that's all i can think to keep me from getting pissed off. >_< even if people are like that (repressive and conformity-demanding) the solution isn't to give in and force your children to change for it...

Well I consider them my kids to, I'm like the second daddy.. because I was there for emotional support throughout the entire time. And beliee me it was VERY hard not to tear his head off, goodness I was so tempted.